Peace is The Way Forward

Christmas is the time of year when people get caught up in the hustle and bustle of the busness and business of the season. Shopping, baking, cooking, cleaning, wrapping, traveling, entertaining, partying, making donations, mailing parcels and decorating; all known to bring on worries and stress on occasion. Peace of mind, peace on earth, Prince of Peace are often lost in the shuffle somehow.

Christmas is a special time of year which has the capacity to send a little nudge our way, reminding us to check in and take stock of how we are doing in the ‘inner peace’ department. Are we doing ok emotionally, physicially and spiritually? It is a good time to contemplate the state of our inner world (mind, body and soul), our outer world (relationships, organizations, communities) and the big picture ‘peace on earth.’ Is there an area in our lives where we need to initiate change individually, in our relationships, communities and businesses or elsewhere in order to create a calm existence for ourselves and others?

Reflection and Contemplation

Take a few moments to reflect upon the following questions. Determine whether you need to make changes in your current reality in order to create a sense of greater inner peace.

What are my beliefs and values? Am I honouring them?

What are my plans? Do they have the capacity to bring me a greater sense of calm?

Am I honouring this season of peace? Will I be giving the gift of peace?

With whom and where will I spend my time throughout the Christmas season? Will I be receiving the gift of peace? If not, what changes do I need to make to ensure I do?

Am I conscioiulsy setting myself up to experience and enjoy quality time in each and every moment?

Sageocracy – A Few Words of Wisdom

Check out the following list of 30 quotes on peace. They have been curated and are being shared with hopes they inspire a little peace of mind and peaceful living:

Peace comes from within, do not seek it without. – Buddha

Peace begins with a smile. – Mother Teresa

If we are to create peace in the world, we must begin with our children. – Mahatma Gandhi

When you feel a peaceful joy, that is when you are near peace. – Rumi

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. – Jimi Hendrix

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. – Albert Einstein

It’s not the world that needs peace it is people. When people are at peace the world will be at peace. – Prem Rawat

There was never a good war or a bad peace. – Benjamin Franklin

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life; but by realizing who you are at the deepest level. – Eckert Tolle

Peace is something that we can bring about if we can actually learn to wake up a bit more as individuals and a lot more as a species; if we can learn to be fully what we actually already are; to reside in the inherent potential of what is possible for us, being human. – Jon Kabat-Zinn

If you can not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. – Marvin Gaye

Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each another. – Elie Wiesel

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding that bringeth peace. – Helen Keller

The most powerful possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. – Carlos Santana

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, not war. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it, one must work at it. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Peace is joy at rest, and joy is peace on it feet. – Annie Lamott

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the sixties, that is his problem. Love and peace are eternal. – John Lennon

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy. – Thomas Jefferson

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace. – Thich Nhat Hanh

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it more fully in your heart. – St. Francis of Assisi

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends, you talk to your enemies. – Desmond Tutu

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion. – Dalai Lama

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. – Nelson Mandela

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be. – Dr. Wayne Dyer

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

If we are to have peace on earth…our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, our nation, and this means we must develop a world perspective. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. – Isaiah 9:6

Contemplation

Imagine a future where all new born babies are destined to be received and celebrated for being gifts of peace. Imagine a world where all people accept the fact that peace is the way forward. What will it take for you to create a greater sense of inner peace and to plant seeds of peace from this day forward?

Related Resources

Books that have inspired me and influenced my journey towards a greater sense of inner knowing and peace:

Reading is one of my favorite passtimes. Finding a quiet, relaxing space where I can comfortably curl up with a book is one luxurious pleasure. I treat it as if it is a gift I lovingly give to myself at Christmas time. I challenge you to give yourself at least one gift of peace each and every day. You have nothing to lose and possibly a great deal to gain.

May the Christmas Spirit bless you; may you receive and give the kind of gifts fit for a Prince of Peace.

By:

Daphne MacNeil

Leaders’ and Life Strategist and In-Leaders™Coach

ITZ Focus Solutions Inc. (Founder)

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